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HORIZON EUROPE – INDUSTRY – 2026

Pillar 2 of the Horizon Europe programme aims to boost innovation, competitiveness, and employment in Europe through collaborative projects, international partnerships, and funding opportunities accessible to companies of all sizes and sectors.

2026-04-21
319.6 million euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference HORIZON-CL4-2026-01
Programme HORIZON EUROPE
Institution European Commission
Sectors Business & Industry Cooperation & Development Research & Innovation Social Economy Technology & Digital
Beneficiaries EU & International Organisation Large company (> 250 employees) Professional organisation & network Research centre & university Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees)

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Call reference

HORIZON-CL4-2026-01



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Priorities and funded actions

Some Horizon Europe budgets are structured in response to policy ambitions (“destinations”) and deployed through calls for proposals targeting more specific thematic/sector (“Topics”). Thus, your application must be linked to a topic of a call for proposals.

 

Various categories of projects are eligible:

  • RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Technology development and adoption / Testing and validation of a prototype in the laboratory ;
  • IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include limited R&D activities ;
  • CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking, studies & conferences, communication, studies for new research infrastructures ;
  • MSCA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / ERC individual grants: Training networks for researchers, Individual grants for experienced researchers, Staff exchange – mobility for researchers and non-scientific staff.

In addition, calls specify the categories of eligible beneficiaries:

  • Collaborative projects, composed of a coordinator and several partners organisations (consortium) ;
  • Single-beneficiary projects, involving a single organization ;
  • Individual scholarships, open to natural persons in their own name with their home institution.

TOPICS:

Forthcoming

  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-23: Accelerating the discovery and development of chemicals and innovative advanced materials through digitalisation and artificial intelligence
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-24: Cooperation on innovative advanced materials with Japan
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-01: Advanced manufacturing for key products
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-04:Optimise the usage of resources in a circular economy
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-05: Circular innovative advanced materials: facilitating the transition from design to markets
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-31: Efficient capture / purification / utilisation of CO2 for the production of competitive products
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-41: Enhancing industry-academia knowledge exchange in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-44: Attracting management talent for capacity building for Technology Infrastructures staff members
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-45: Pilot access schemes to Technology Infrastructures for European startups, scaleups and innovative SMEs
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-46: Mapping and service finder for Technology Infrastructures
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-48: ‘Proof of market’ to improve valorisation and commercialisation of Horizon generated R&I results
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-11: Innovative technologies and tools for exploration and data modelling of raw materials
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-12: Technologies for innovative extraction of critical raw materials
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-13: Monitoring of secondary raw materials
  • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-14: Improving availability of secondary raw materials through recycling

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 319.6 million euros
  • Budget per topic:
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-23: 50 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-24: 800 000 euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-01: 38 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-04: 64 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-05 37 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-31: 43.8 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-41: 2 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-44: 2.5 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-45: 5 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-46: 2 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-48: 5 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-11: 18.5 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-12: 19 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-13: 4 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD-14: 28 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 200.000 and 13 million euros
  • Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs